Five True Things and a Novel into the Bargain -- Ruth Leigh
Hello! We haven’t met, so I thought I’d kick things off by telling you five facts about me. Like an ice breaker. As if we were all together at a party. Remember those? I hate fresh tomatoes with a passion. I once found myself at a dinner party faced with a vast slice of the said fruit prettily sprinkled with fresh herbs. Rejecting it was out of the question, so I cut it into four and washed each chunk down, unchewed, with gulps of white wine. Bill Bailey called my baby cute (he was, too). I can recite all the books of the New Testament in order. Just sayin’. My fifteen times great grandfather was the Bishop of Gloucester, burned at the stake by Mary Tudor. I once won a Walnut Whip eating competition (it was a grudge match back in my carefree twenties). Now we’re acquainted, let’s go! I’ve been a freelance writer for nearly thirteen years, an obsessive and voracious reader all my life and a novelist since I wrote my first work of fiction last year in lock down. That book, th...